According to the latest edition of The Cancer Atlas, lower-income nations are experiencing a rise in lung, colorectal and ...

By 2018, inequality was between 35.3 and 49.4 percent lower than it was in 1990. In other words, this progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the ...

Economic Inequality Seen as Major Challenge Around the World. 1. Global perceptions of inequality and discrimination. 2. Factors seen as contributing to economic inequality. 3. Views of children’s ...

Thus the long decline in global inequality that began around 1990 has come to an end—and gaps between rich and poor now look likely to widen, as poor countries take longer to recover from covid.

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...

Ulrike Lindner, Michaela Pelican, Durable Inequalities in Exploitative Labor Situations in the Global South, Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1/2, Special Issue: The ...

While global inequality has improved slightly over the last several decades thanks to the growth of India and China (where a large number of the world’s people live), the world remains highly unequal.

How global inequality hinders climate action Published: January 23, 2025 12:17pm EST. Susan Ann Samuel, University of Leeds. Author. Susan Ann Samuel ...

Why do some nations fail and others succeed?In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists think about global inequality. Their ...